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Start the countdown to Easter: Music and the street.
With those words of Mayor Pilar Barreiro, ending the act of Holy Week and call her four older brothers of Holy Week brotherhoods and hundreds of Cartagena have set sail tonight at the Church of Charity to make a offering to the virgin.
The four older brothers of the fraternities, brotherhoods and hundreds of Cartagena not want to miss the event that proclaims the beginning of Lent, in which the first municipal authority given to the Board of guilds a check to assist the processions.
This year, the municipal subsidy of 183,060 euros has been a 10% lower than in 2011.
Reducing the amount has not been a surprise to the Board of guilds.
In fact, before the mayor to thank the municipal contribution, Vice President of the Board of guilds, Sunday Bastida, has appealed to the need for belt-tightening fraternities and of recognizing the role for which they were created. This Lent is marked by economic weakness, has been reported.
Older siblings, Sunday Bastida, the Marraja, Juan Carlos de la Cerra, of California, Tomas Martinez Pagan, by Risen and Manuel Sanchez, Socorro Christ have come to the Palace Hall on time shortly before 20.30 hours.
Were preceded by the Cartagena Music Group, who played Easter marches and followed by a multitude of procesionistas.
They came to celebrate at their respective headquarters of the general councils and decide to take a year to the street processions.
During the event, which has developed on the balcony of the Palace Hall, the mayor is satisfied with the convening power that has for the Cartagena Easter Call: No long-awaited announcement to convene such excitement as tonight . The brothers have renewed their commitment to tradition and assume the responsibility of turning the street processions.
The echo of the call will reach the far end where it is one of Cartagena.
Meanwhile, Bastida has dedicated his words to all the brothers who anonymously make it possible for parades year after year go into the street Easter is the heritage of this town and becomes the season of greatest popularity, roots and participation. I hope that the processions do not lose their identity and become a showcase and a reason to visit Cartagena.
After the speech, and the now classic Music and Street, these have been addressed to the Church of Charity. There in the door, the Cartagena Music Group has released the march has always dedicated his two older musicians .
Soon after, the procession has entered the Church and made ​​an offering to the patron.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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